Table Of Content

Cover page Page: i Halftitle page Page: i Series page Page: ii Title page Page: x Copyright page Page: xii Dedication page Page: xiii Contents Page: xv Acknowledgements Page: xvii Acknowledgements to the second edition Page: xvii List of illustrations Page: xix Introduction: montage Page: 1 1. Subaltern knowledges Page: 11 You find yourself a refugee Page: 12 Different kinds of knowledge Page: 17 Knowledge, politics, and power Page: 20 Subalternity and the subaltern woman Page: 23 Languages Page: 25 Literatures Page: 28 2. Colonialisms, decolonization, decoloniality Page: 31 Decoloniality Page: 35 3. Slavery, race, caste Page: 40 Slavery, race, and racism Page: 41 Caste Page: 45 4. History and power, from below and above Page: 48 Bombing Iraq—since 1920 Page: 49 ‘The right to bomb’: Baghdad, 21 January 2003 Page: 51 5. Nomads, nation-states, borders Page: 60 Nomads Page: 62 Nation-states Page: 64 Unsettled states: nations and their borders Page: 66 The wall Page: 73 Touch of evil Page: 74 6. Hybridity Page: 76 Raï and Islamic social space Page: 81 7. The ambivalence of the veil Page: 90 8. Gender, queering, and feminism in a postcolonial context Page: 102 Women’s movements after independence Page: 108 What makes postcolonial feminism ‘postcolonial’? Page: 110 What makes a politics postcolonial? Page: 112 9. Globalization from a postcolonial perspective Page: 117 Che reads The Wretched of the Earth Page: 118 Globalization Page: 124 ‘Good food—Nestlé—Good life’ Page: 125 Sharing resources in an unequal world Page: 127 10. Ecology and indigeneity Page: 128 11. Translation Page: 139 Translating—between cultures Page: 140 Empowering Fanon Page: 144 References Page: 151 Further reading Page: 158 Index Page: 167 Geopolitics Page: 175 Critical Theory Page: 176 Economics Page: 177 Globalization Page: 178 International Migration Page: 179 International Relations Page: 180

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Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination. Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable